Entries by POLARIS Laboratories

The Difference One Year Makes

As POLARIS Laboratories® marks the one-year anniversary of our new laboratory and corporate headquarters, the real celebrants of this milestone should be you – our customers! POLARIS Laboratories® is committed […]

Know Your Sample in a 360 View

Two weeks ago, I spent a week in San Francisco with nearly 150,000 marketing professionals at the annual Dreamforce Conference hosted by Salesforce, the world’s leading customer relationship management company. […]

POLARIS Laboratories® CTO Mark Minges Retires

INDIANAPOLIS – POLARIS Laboratories’ Co-Founder, Partner and Chief Technical Officer Mark Minges retired from the company on Friday, September 26. Chief Executive Officer Bryan Debshaw, Chief Information Officer Don Woods […]

Setting Limits on Fluid Properties

Earlier this month, I talked about how we set limits for wear metals and contaminants. There is one final group of results Data Analysts examine to determine the health of oil, […]

Monitoring Oil to Extend Drains

The livelihood of truck owner-operators hinges on the dependability of their equipment. When they experience a catastrophic equipment failure, it takes a long time to recover. Expensive repair and replacement […]

Oil, Coolant and Fuel Contamination

It doesn’t matter if it came from outside the equipment, was generated inside the equipment or if it worked its way into the oil from another system in the machine, […]

Compliance Yields Results

When equipment replacement costs hit an all-time high, a world wide oil field service company turned to POLARIS Laboratories® to revitalize their fluid analysis program. Coming from a low rate […]

Setting Wear Metal Flagging Limits

Our customers have a wide range of knowledge about fluid analysis. Many are new to the process and others have decades of experience. Some have even earned tribology certifications or […]

How We Set Flagging Limits

In the Data Analysis department, one of our key responsibilities is to answer any questions customers have about fluid analysis. A lot of our calls are about what results mean. […]